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Enes FREEDOM: Hypocrites! I see @Celtics coaching staff wearing Ukrainian flag pins, which I support What about Syria,Afghanistan,Uyghurs, Hong Kong,Tibet,Taiwan Why is it okay to speak up about human rights violations there but not in other countries? Is there not much profit from Russia?
Hypocrites!
— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) March 6, 2022
I see @Celtics coaching staff wearing Ukrainian flag pins, which I support
What about Syria,Afghanistan,Uyghurs, Hong Kong,Tibet,Taiwan
Why is it okay to speak up about human rights violations there but not in other countries?
Is there not much profit from Russia? pic.twitter.com/yhcmS3pefT
The current situation in Afghanistan has also sparked a tweet contrast between two members of the NBA family in Stan Van Gundy and Enes Kanter.
Meyers Leonard received a surprise on national television late Friday night. During an appearance on TNT’s “Inside the NBA” to discuss what Sept. 11 means to him, the Miami Heat center was caught off guard when his older brother, Bailey, joined the show. Bailey served two tours in Afghanistan with the U.S. Marines.
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Caron Butler admits he was" extremely scared" during a "red alert" bomb scare while he was visiting troops in Afghanistan ... but praises the Army for keeping him safe and vows to go back. Butler just returned from a trip to the Middle East with the USO -- and even watched the NBA All-Star game with soldiers in Afghanistan. But a few days before the game, troops rushed in and moved Caron to a secure area after getting intel about a potential bomb threat. "You could tell a lot of people was in like a extreme red alert," Butler says ... "I was extremely scared to say the least."
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From Turkey to Qatar to Afghanistan to Germany, Allen was back on military grounds. "It's the least that we can do," Allen said. "We're afforded so many privileges. I think at times we can become entitled in this country. We think certain things are supposed to be the way they are. I can use up all these products and throw them in the trash then take my trash and put out to the curbside. I can get in my car and drive down the street of a road that's paved. I can use a park system and drink water from a park. So many different liberties that we have in this country that a lot of us take for granted and in a lot of instances, those freedoms are being protected by people in other countries."
About a year later, a member of the Polish military contingent in Afghanistan — Mirosław Łucki, who Gortat believes was part of the group he met — died from injuries suffered in an explosion in Afghanistan. “Any such tragedy — the death of a soldier — touches us in a special way, because it creates a void, which in this family the soldier cannot fill,” a Polish Ministry of National Defense official said at a ceremony in Poland honoring Łucki, according to a translation on the Ministry’s Web site.
Geoff Calkins: During chalk talk, @John Hollinger asked if in career change he's gone from "playing World of Warcraft to shipping out to Afghanistan."
The Suns planned to have Polish heritage night for their home opener on Wednesday and Gortat had flown in 25 people from his native country – including soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, the Polish minister of sport, the Polish ambassador and children from his basketball camp — for what was expected to be a fun week in Phoenix. But while they were arriving in Arizona, Gortat was catching a flight to start his new life in Washington.
A former translator for Osama bin Laden wants a cat as company in Guantanamo Bay and thinks LeBron James should apologize to Cleveland. You can't make this stuff up. Carlos Warner, a lawyer representing Muhammed Rahim, an Afghan who translated for the late al-Qaeda leader, sent a letter to a Washington Post blog detailing his client's complaints and comments from the U.S. prison. Mostly, he wanted to let people know that certain prisoners were given cats.
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Polish basketball player Marcin Gortat who plays in the NBA - professional basketball league in North America, arrived to the Afghanistan where it awaits a busy summer – participation in the shares of traditional children’s camps, training sessions and matches with the representation and a trip to the military mission in Afghanistan. NBA basketball star Marcin Gortat has told Polish soldiers that they are true heroes, as, unlike the athletes competing in sports halls, they risk their lives to make life safer for others. Gortat added also that he was under the impression of the professional skills of Polish soldiers. He honestly approved that he had wriggled out of military service.
A group of eight NBA players went to Hawaii last week and hefted real M16s in a simulated firefight, got up close with an array of makeshift bombs, heard the coordinates barked for a desert air raid and ran in a stuffy, dimly-lit gym or two with soldiers either just back from, or headed to, Afghanistan and Iraq. Along the way, they showed that, despite the NBA lockout, the league still cares. Or at least some of its players do. The eight players -- Derrick Rose, Al Horford, Brook and Robin Lopez, Tyreke Evans, JaVale McGee, Mike Miller and D.J. Augustin -- did all that as part of a four-day USO tour of Oahu, the first featuring current professional athletes. They met with, and performed for, military personnel at Hickam Air Force Base and the U.S. Army's Schofield Barracks.
The Spurs and all of Spurs Nation are mourning the loss of team doctor David Schmidt’s son, Benjamin, who died Thursday in Afghanistan while serving with the U.S. Marine Corps. Benjamin Whetstone Schmidt, 24, had done a four-month tour of Afghanistan about two years ago and started his second deployment there early last month.
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